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Guns N ‘Roses made their debut on Thursday evening (July 31) on the Holy Ground of the Wacken Open Air. The California hard rock band played for almost three and a half hours on the Mega Festival in Schleswig Holstein. There has never been a slot of this length. This is how the fans react to the performance of the group – and to the vocal constitution of AXL Rose.
With early classics such as “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Mr. Brownstone”, bombast ballads such as “November Rain” as well as rarely played pearls such as “Coma” and newer tracks such as “Hard Skool”, every fan generation was offered somewhat at the Metal Festival. The headliners not only brought a set full of classics and the usual cover, but also surprised the audience with an emotional gesture: a tribute to the recently deceased Ozzy Osbourne.
Guns n ‘Roses Wacken: Sounds like “Micky Mouse”
At a show of this length, some feared the vocal full failure of the singer Axl Rose in advance. His performance had already caused malice and ridicule on the net with the previous Guns-N ‘-Roses tour stops. The criticism also does not fail with the Wacken. Under a fan upload for the 1990 classic “Civil War”, a user complains: “OMG … The only thing he did was at the beginning. , Civil was one of the most beautiful songs from Gn’r … And if someone says again that it was due to the bad sound … No, he just can’t sing anymore. Too bad. “
There is also a disappointment in the comment column of a recording of the “Paradise City” charts hit, the last song of the setlist. “The paint is off” or “eIne caricature of himself, ”writes the network audience. Quite a few compare the 63-year-old’s skirt tube with the beep of a popular Disney character:“ Sounds like Micky Maus, who sits in a blender. ”
Support for AXL: “Germany and its experts! “
However, a few fans jump into the breach for the front man. “”Have just got older, I found it ok“Somebody writes. Another points to the quality of the recording and defends the hard rockers: This is live music … and here with a microphone recorded from a cell phone !!! One laid the nonsense from the other! Germany and its experts! “
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Nevertheless, the mood remains clear: the fans on the net seem disappointed with the Wacken debut of Guns N ‘Roses. And although Axl Rose is already avoiding the critical high tones in “Knocking on Heavens Door”, the judgment of most is as hard as the music on Wacken: “Respect to everyone who has done this to the end and are now ill. That was one of the worst Wacken gigs ever. Gn’r just have finished. “